it used to be that the court focused on history and tradition kind of from long ago, but in one of the most relevant cases, a case from texas, justice kennedy, and this was a case called lawrence versus texas that involved a criminalization of same-sex activity, justice county said the tradition and history that matters is the recent history and tradition. now, three weeks is super recent, but if you have another three, four or five years like the election in 2012, that could really change the landscape. >> of course, kennedy always has the key vote, so they'll be looking carefully. >> it's hard to see if it is declared nationally if he is not one of the justices saying that. >> thank you. >>> courts have been around for many, many years, in fact, this month they voted to approve the three strikes law, and already a couple cases are out of prison. how does that work? >> a few of those cases were in the works prior to the voting on prop 36. a couple of the voters actually supported the petition for sentence reduction, and once the judge approved that, the sentence reduction was beneath